Posted by Admin on 27th November 2006
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you’ve downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers.One thing you need to remember this will create backup all the packages installed using apt-get,synaptic because these package arcives are stored in /var/cache/apt/archives
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Other Linux, Package-Mgmt | 9 Comments »
Posted by Admin on 26th November 2006
auto-apt is a program that checks file access of programs running within auto-apt environments. If a program will access a file of uninstalled package, auto-apt will install the package containing the file, by using apt-get.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Package-Mgmt | No Comments »
Posted by Admin on 25th November 2006
apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. Especially, it is intended to be invoked before each upgrade by apt in order to check whether the upgrade/installation is safe.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Package-Mgmt | 1 Comment »
Posted by Admin on 23rd November 2006
Dpkg is the Debian package manager dpkg is a medium-level tool to install, build, remove and manage Debian packages. The primary and more user-friendly front-end for dpkg is dselect.dpkg itself is controlled entirely via command line parameters,which consist of exactly one action and zero or more options. The action-parameter tells dpkg what to do and options control the behavior of the action in some way.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Package-Mgmt | 9 Comments »
Posted by Admin on 16th November 2006
Synaptic is a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing software packages on Debian-based distributions. If you are using Debian or Ubuntu you will easily find Synaptic in the System Tools menu or in the Administration menu. Synaptic uses the GTK graphic libraries . So, if you are using GNOME on your debian-based distro you will probably have Synaptic installed as well. Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides the same features as the apt-get command line utility with a GUI front-end based on Gtk+.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Other Linux, Package-Mgmt | 23 Comments »
Posted by Admin on 11th November 2006
apt-show-versions parses the dpkg status file and the APT lists for the installed and available package versions and distribution and shows upgrade options within the specific distribution of the selected package.
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Package-Mgmt | 2 Comments »
